This monumental architecture and urban design is not usually compatible with a human-scale city.

这种纪念性建筑和城市设计通常与人性化的城市不相容。

But if there's any time and place for an urban designer to create spaces for monumental architecture, it's in a newly designed capital city.

但如果城市设计师有时间和地点来创造纪念性建筑的空间的话，那就是在新设计的首都。

In spite of all this, its inhabitants built the world's first cities, with monumental architecture and large populations— and they built them entirely out of mud.

尽管如此，它的居民还是建造了世界上第一批城市，拥有不朽的建筑和大量的人口——而且他们完全是用泥土建造的。

And on the other side of the Pacific, in Peru's Rio Supe, we already see huge agglomerations of people with monumental architecture 4,000 years before the Inca.

在太平洋的另一边，在秘鲁的苏佩里奥，我们已经看到巨大的人口聚集地，在印加文明出现之前 4000 年就拥有不朽的建筑。

It can be said without exaggeration that this pyramid complex constitutes a milestone in the evolution of monumental stone architecture in Egypt and in the world as a whole.'

可以毫不夸张地说，这座金字塔建筑群构成了埃及乃至整个世界不朽石材建筑演变过程中的一个里程碑。